Quest User Guide
Quest is Northwestern's High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster. It is used by researchers throughout the university. Quest is managed by Northwestern IT Research Computing Services. An overview of Quest and information about applying for an allocation (account) can be found on the Research Computing Services website.
Quest will be undergoing scheduled maintenance and will be unavailable starting at 5PM Sunday September 19th, 2021, through 5PM Friday September 24, 2021.
User Guides
- Quest Quick Start Guide: Recommended for new users
- Logging in to Quest
- File Systems and Storage
- Transferring Files
- Checking Allocation Resources
- Submitting a Job
- Compiling Code
- Available Software
- Module Software Environment Manager
- Using R
- Using MATLAB
- Using Python, Jupyter Notebook on Compute Nodes
- Using Git
- Using Knitro
- Installing Software
- Quest Analytics Nodes
- RStudio
- SAS Studio
- Jupyter (Python)
- Genomics Compute Cluster
- Quest FAQ